Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zero attacked Gus Widhelm-Jap aviators are trained to attack the squadron leader. "I pulled my nose up," Widhelm says, "and put my bead just about half a cowling above him and held the fire right there until he flew into it. He burst into flames...
When he returned to his squadron Gus Widhelm remembered what he had said about the separation of the men from the boys. The flyers hoisted him to their shoulders and chanted: "Here...
...More than in any other service youth runs the Air Forces. Frequently a man in his early 20s commands a bombardment squadron worth $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 in equipment alone. Most have no business training, though each unit is a business which must turn in a profit. Once Arnold's system is in full operation, a Stat officer will be attached to each Air Force unit down to the farthest squadron. By instituting a management-control system, General Arnold hopes to up those profits in terms of damage to the enemy and conservation...
...Britain. Under him in Africa will be the R.A.F.'s Air Marshal Sir William Welsh, Major General Jimmy Doolittle, and General Jean Mendigal with his poorly equipped but zestful French airmen. General Spaatz presented 13 U.S. P-4Os to the French Lafayette Escadrille, successor to the famed U.S. squadron of World War I, and promised that the French will get more U.S. planes...
...film market was in need of a good flying picture after Pearl Harbor, and it was sorely in need of one after "Eagle Squadron," "Dangerous Journey," and "Flying Tigers" were released. At last Alexander Korda has met the mark with his British production, "One of Our Aircraft Is Missing...